2019 American Transplant Congress
Near-Miss Events during Donor Left Liver Lobe Hepatectomy: A Potential Quality-Control to Assess Donor Safety in Living Donor Liver Transplantation Programs
Cliniques universitaires Saint Luc - Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
*Purpose: Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is a well-established alternative to alleviate postmortem organ shortage in pediatric liver transplantation. Such program, however, should be performed…2019 American Transplant Congress
Totally Robotic Donor Hepatectomy: Feasibility And Early Outcomes
Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Burlington, MA
*Purpose: Robotic surgery is emerging as a surgical technique to enable resection of the liver using minimally invasive techniques; however, very few living donor liver…2019 American Transplant Congress
Learning Curve for Living Donor Laparoscopic Left Lateral Sectionectomy
*Purpose: Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is an important method in reducing wait list mortality. Laparoscopic hepatectomy has been investigated in order to decrease donor…2019 American Transplant Congress
Higher Incidence of Coagulation Complications in Live Liver Donation
Surgery, UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA
*Purpose: Live donor liver and kidney donations are very effective procedures to increase the available organ pool and shorten waiting list for the patients listed…2019 American Transplant Congress
Late Acute Rejection Increases Risk Of Graft Failure In Ldlt Recipients: Data From The A2all Cohort
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Late acute rejection (LAR) is defined as an initial episode of acute rejection occurring >6 months after transplantation. LAR in liver transplantation (LT) is…2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact of a Liver Waitlist Candidate LDLT Educational Outreach Program on Referrals and Outcomes of Donor Evaluation
*Purpose: Challenges to identify suitable candidates for living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) include low donor acceptance, recipient & provider team reluctance to pursue LDLT. A…2019 American Transplant Congress
5,000 Living Donor Liver Transplantations
*Purpose: To review single center's experiences in living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) and analyze risk factors affecting short and long-term outcomes.*Methods: Retrospective analysis of 5,000…2019 American Transplant Congress
Correlations between Preoperative Hepatic Venous Pressure Gradient and Graft Hemodynamics after Reperfusion in Living Donor Liver Transplantation
*Purpose: Hepatic venous pressure gradient (HVPG) is known to correlate with severity of portal hypertension in patients with liver cirrhosis. We retrospectively investigated the clinical…2019 American Transplant Congress
Pure Laparoscopic Donor Hepatectomy Based On Korean Multicenter Experience
*Purpose: Due to increased experience and knowledge in laparoscopic surgery in the era of minimally invasive surgery, laparoscopic donor hepatectomy is also being increasingly performed…2019 American Transplant Congress
Donor Exclusions and Shifting Trends in Living Liver Donor Evaluations: A Single Center Experience
Transplant Surgery, UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Not many studies have reported the donor exclusion rates and reason for their decline in US. We aim to report the breakdown of donor…
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